Geologist Eduard Ahnert: «Stay as close to the truth as possible». A.А. KHISAMUTDINOV
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Э.Э. Анерт, история геологии, Дальгеолком, русские в Харбине, Общество изучения Маньчжурского края, русские геологи в КитаеAbstract
Geologist Eduard Ahnert: «Stay as close to the truth as possible». A.А. KHISAMUTDINOV (Central Scientific Library, FEB RAS, Vladivostok).
This article presents the scientific biography of the geologist Eduard Eduardovich Ahnert (1865–1946), who contributed much to the geological research in the Far East, both Russian Far East and the Northeast China. Having begun his research along the Trans-Siberian Railway in 1895, he continued his work in Primorye, Sakhalin, and Manchuria. Ahnert established the Far Eastern Geological Committee and succeeded in organizing a comprehensive study of the regional mineral resources. Having emigrated to China, he continued his research along the Sino-Eastern Railway, became a co-founder of the Society for the Study of Manchuria and its museum (now the museum of the Heilongjiang Province). His multi-year activity in the Far East resulted in more than two hundred scientific publications, many of them have not lost their relevance today. Writing the article the author used materials from foreign archives and libraries of USA and China.
